When comparing Instapaper vs EmailThis, the Slant community recommends Instapaper for most people. In the question“What are the best read-it-later apps?”Instapaper is ranked 2nd while EmailThis is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Instapaper is:

Allows leaving notes attached to articles and highlighting certain part of the text. Free version of the app is limited to 5 highlights a month.

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Annotation tools

Allows leaving notes attached to articles and highlighting certain part of the text. Free version of the app is limited to 5 highlights a month.

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Pagination

Allows for pagination, not just scrolling.

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Excellent typography choices

Instapaper allows you to choose from 14 different fonts, some of which have been designed specifically for the application. You can manually adjust spacing between lines, padding around text and font size to fit your preferences.

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Awesome offline mode

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Can look up words in a dictionary and Wikipedia

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Can be set to switch to dark mode based on time of day

Instapaper includes a dark theme and allows switching to it after a set period in time or gradually over the course of the day.

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Rarely seen organization options

In addition to allowing you to sort articles by when you saved them, you can also order articles by length or read progress and popularity.

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Has a font designed for readers with Dyslexia

Instapaper includes Dyslexie a font that helps people with reading problems understand the text better.

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Free archiving of deleted webpages

In Pocket, this is a paid function - but Instapaper provides this for free! If a webpage is deleted, it remains in your Instapaper and they even archive pictures of the articles.

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Can playback inline video

Instapaper will play videos from YouTube, Vimeo and other sources that are embedded in articles, but you have to be online for playback to work.

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Allows listening to articles

Instapaper comes with a build in text-to-speech feature that will read out loud articles. Premium version of the app allows creating playlists.

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Includes optional social features

If you set your Instapaper profile to be public, your friends will be able to see articles you've liked.

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Articles can be emailed to Instapaper

You can add articles to Instapaper by sending them to a unique email address associated with your account.

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PDF snapshots & notes

Lets to save PDF snapshots of all web pages. EmailThis also lets you add notes and keywords for faster searching.

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Available on the web and mobile devices

Extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.Bookmarklet for Safari & IE.Also includes a 'mail to self' feature for Android and iOS devices.

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Allows reading saved content in offline mode

Web pages are cleaned up and sent to your email inbox. They can be accessed even offline from mobile devices.

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One-click save

The Chrome extension allows you to save articles with a single click.

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Cons

Con

Became a paid service again

Most functions, like search, became premium.

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Only supports English

It only supports English, and not Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

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Tags not implemented

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Embedded images and videos are sometimes ignored

Instapaper sometimes saves articles without images or videos.

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Search functions return random articles

The search function is very slow and does not provide accurate results. The user can not filter or reorder the search results, or search the archive or annotated articles.

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